The hardest thing about being alive is that people never really know the real you. Most only remember small parts—a few memories or stories—never everything you feel and think. You might try to show your real self, but others fill in the missing pieces with their guesses. They give you a label or idea in […]
Sometimes, life feels more like a maze than a journey. There are moments when everything seems to pause, when the world grows quiet, and questions drift in like a gentle wind. Is this the right direction? Were the choices made along the way enough, or did they close doors that can never be reopened? He
“Are you happy Stephen?”That’s what Dr. Strange gets asked, all dressed up at Christine’s wedding. For a second, you can see it hits him-he smiles, but it doesn’t quite reach his eyes. He’s saved the world, sure, but happiness? That’s a different kind of magic. Even a superhero can feel a little lost, especially when
The hangover pounded in my head like a relentless wave against the Nice shoreline. The previous night’s pub crawl, a blur of faces and cheap drinks, felt like a bad dream. This wasn’t how I envisioned summer on the French Riviera. Seeking solace, I wandered onto the Promenade des Anglais, the salty spray a welcome
Dust devils pirouette around my ankles, the relentless sun a hammer on my already weary back. Sunrise over Everest? Jaw-dropping. Ethical elephant encounter? More like a questionable cuddle with a chained giant. The pictures are fire, though. Gotta be racking up the likes, right? Wrong. A wave of guilt washes over me, thick and heavy
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The woman’s eyes narrowed as she observed the ratchet in his hand. “Well, spill it. What’s that for?” “For you. The way you’ve been carrying on lately, I suspected you might have a screw loose.” “You do realize that’s for nuts and bolts, don’t you?” They shared a chuckle, the tension breaking like a dam.
Life’s essence encapsulated, in bubbles we reside, A shared existence, no one can hide. Within these spheres, we ponder and sigh, Yet an answer to this life remains awry. Born in bubbles, each child anew, These orbs of existence grow with us, it’s true. Life unfolds, with burdens to bear, Within these confines, solitude our
– Albert Einstein “Zindagi mein jab koi pattern banta yaa koi aadat banti dikhaai de naa, to uske baare mein acchi tarah se soch lena chahie. Genius is about knowing when to stop.”– Dear Zindagi But don’t overthink, know when to stop overthinking, and just like overthinking know when to stop over drinking, overworking, overplaying,
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Eros and Thanatos are two of the most fundamental concepts in Western thought. Eros is the Greek god of love, while Thanatos is the god of death. These two forces are often seen as opposites, but they are also inextricably linked. Eros represents the life instinct, the drive to survive and reproduce. It is the
The Forest of Whispers Once, in a distant land, nestled between towering mountains and glistening rivers, there stood an ancient forest known as the “Forest of Whispers.” Legend had it that within the heart of the forest, an elusive creature resided—a mystical being said to grant profound wisdom to those who could find it. Numerous
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One of the hardest things about struggling with your mental health is how alone the experience makes you feel. You assume that no one else is going through the same thing, feel uniquely bad or incompetent, and fear others might find out you’re not doing well and judge you. The truth is the complete opposite.
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Henry Cavill gave an interview revealing how he stays positive, explaining he keeps this list of 50 life lessons from an 80-year-old man. “A friend of mine sent me this text a long time ago, and it’s stuck with me ever since. It’s 50 points, and it’s advice from an 80-year-old. And I try to
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The thinking mind is ‘a machine for turning a profit’. It is there for solving problems, in other words. This is very useful at the same time as being (potentially) highly dangerous, it can be a double-edged sword; it’s dangerous because unless there’s oversight with regard to the operation of this machine then everything straight
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Love is not a feeling but a practice. Is love a noun or verb?? There is only one passion that satisfies man’s need to unite himself with the world and to acquire at the same time a sense of integrity and individuality, and this is love. Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition
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“Love is a losing game, one I wish I never played.” – Amy Winehouse A game is a situation where two or more people or groups make decisions that affect each other’s outcomes. Just like in rock-paper-scissors, the outcome of a game depends not only on what you do but also on what the other
So, imagine you’re at a party and there’s a big bowl of chips in front of you. You know it’s not really polite to eat all the chips, but your stomach is growling and they look so darn tasty.Morality is like that little voice in your head that tells you to share the chips with
Have you ever felt like all eyes are on you when you walk into a room? Or maybe you’ve felt self-conscious about a new outfit or haircut, worried that others are noticing and judging you. If so, you’ve experienced the spotlight effect – a common psychological phenomenon in which individuals tend to overestimate the extent
Sometimes the walls call to me. They call to me. They call to me. I stare at them all the time. I don’t answer back. Never. I’m lucid enough to feel danger. They call to me in a peculiar manner.It usually happens when I’m reading about someone inspiring.When I’m reading about people doing things.Things I want to
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She’s got you high and you don’t even know yetShe’s got you high and you don’t even know yetThe sun’s in the sky, it’s warming up your bare legsYou can’t deny your looking for the sunset Why, when there are hundreds of thousands of songs released each year, do we choose to listen to the same
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It is impossible for anyone to perceive, without perceiving what he perceives. When we see, hear, smell, taste, feel, meditate, or will anything, we know that we do so. It is always like that with our present sensations and perceptions. And it is through this that everyone is to himself that which he calls ‘self,
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Do you have a symbiotic relationship with your Venom? Do the Venom inside you spits a lot of poison and creates resistance for you? Venom is inside me. It is not giant and powerful but smart and pessimistic. There’s some things you say that make me want to dieThere’s some times you make me feel
Have you ever felt so compelled with a task that you forgot to have lunch or forgot to call your spouse? Have you ever been in a state that you were so thrilled with the work that you forgot the time and space? And if you have experienced it and self-reflected on it, then
The philosophy about how society should be and what is the idle way of living will always be a debatable topic and everyone will have their opinions on it. But as we move inside and ask ourselves, we might get some level of clarity of what kind of society we want to live in and
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung Person1: “Think about if she says yes. You should ask her and talk to her.” Person2: “But we don’t know, and I’m sure she is not interested” Person1: “But if we don’t try how will
What do you yearn for? Do you yearn to defend your own beliefs? Or do you yearn to see the world as clearly as you possibly can? I personally would choose the latter. So let’s question our belief and idea of love today. We as a generation are brought up in the time of cheesy
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“It appears that Batman’s nonlethal attitude to The Joker is partially responsible for the continual death and suffering of many innocents. This is so because we all know that Arkham Asylum – the revolving door of Gotham’s criminals – can’t hold The Joker. And, as I said, debilitating him doesn’t work and there is no
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Before starting, I guess we all can agree that everyone likes suspense. It will never be a zero-one question but on some level or degree, we all seem to enjoy it. The suspense keeps us engaged and we all want to be engaged to something (one may agree or not). Before 2010, when anybody would
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Sometimes back, I was watching some TV series and suddenly my phone buzzed. For the next few minutes, I was reading my email and just received some technical assignments to complete. Within minutes I started coding and focusing to meet the deadline. Suddenly, my mom came and called me to have lunch. “Just a second.”
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As we are taught from our childhood to be obedient, one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University. Milgram examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based
We always have a choice when making a decision in life: Either keep thinking and risk alienating yourself from society; or stop thinking and risk alienating yourself from reality. Yes, we are always in this dilemma. If you are not, then thank the super-human you believe. `Life has no meaning, so why bother doing anything?`The
This is a very old article…! As working on blockchain for several months gave several ideas on how we can change the scenario of the web and how any use case can leverage the concept of trust and immutability in distributed systems. There are various aspects of blockchain that we can think of as a separate use
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“Thank god, finally it’s over and I can tick the worksheet.” he sighed as he was leaving from work. “Hey, Raj wants to hang out tonight? We are going to that new pub. Want to join?” Shruti from the HR asked Raj. “No yr. Just want to go home, eat, and straight to bed. But
“Nothing appears to have changed; it seems that you have put on the wrong glasses instead”, she reiterated looking at his pathetic situation attempting to bring him to the real world. Completely oblivious of what she was saying, he was preoccupied with his own complicated thoughts. All this while, he was continuously murmuring about his visualization
It was a dusty sky with the black mist, somewhere they were gray, somewhere brown but in all colors, there was a mixed dark. She never liked the dark color, but these days she is kind of habitual to it. She no more grieve if the sky is dark or blue simply because she can’t
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Not that he did not love the other curves of her body, but her bosom had that altogether different appeal that kept him staunchly attracted towards her. He had told her over a thousand times how much he loved her breasts. “They are all yours, honey. You can do whatever you want to do with
You said right, I should write. But what should I write? Like the Wright brothers, their planes had a flight. I wanted to say that I have this little unresistable itch on my left side. Maybe, I grow a little too emotional, afterward on words I could control before. I don’t know what to ask
I’ve heard those stories before, and they do not end well, or they never end. Moreover, they never started, and everything that seemed to happen later was an illusion formed by each of the protagonists of those stories. She would’ve said that it was just something I said to protect myself, that it was just
She was love. She has innocent and beautiful eyes. She made her own rules. He was careful. He was pure. He demands and understand the rules and flows with it. There is always a difference between the way they think. She made the day of many people by her smile and his day was made
She perched excitedly on the corner of the bed and squealed. I pulled up a chair and sat opposite her. “It has been so long” She sighed “Tell me, tell me, what happened?” “Um..”, I paused, unsure of how to begin. “Well, we met at college.” “How?” she asked. “Well, technically, I saw her, she
She messaged me again, after a long, long time. On WhatsApp, just like she had done the first time. A storm of emotions rose in my heart, destroying everything else. And despite what I had promised, to never talk to her again, I knew I HAD to reply. She- Hey, how have you been? Me-
“Hi. How are you?”, the phone beeped. How ironic is it that when you stop thinking, Nature has its way to get you back to the same page again, I thought. But I also thought about the flowers which grew in the wilderness and that’s what my understanding of a human was too. The distance
“Hold the door,” bellowed Rahul. A little girl stood hesitantly between the slowly closing lift doors; either the lift sensors could not detect her or have failed. A woman standing next to the controls jammed the ‘door open’ button in desperation but the door did not respond. “Hold the door,” screamed Rahul as he took
‘Hello, yeah. I’m in front of Dominos. Now what?’. I said. ‘Come inside. You said you wanted to marry me even though you haven’t even met me. This is the test of your love. There are exactly 8 girls here. You get only one chance to spot me. Go!’, She dropped the call. Shit just
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She lay there, just looking exquisite. And I stood a few steps away wondering what good in the world I had done, of which I had no clue to deserve her. No. I did not deserve her. I knew that. She could have had someone who was better than me in everything. Someone more intelligent,
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And they meet after three long years of knowing….. By ethics of literature, this would surely be a wrong start of storytelling but that’s how it goes. As every story has a boy and a girl, this boy was a simple technical guy with average good looks, and the girl was a dreamer cum fairy-tail
He was happy at his young age. His style was eloquent of his character, a neat and clean one. His infatuation was not interested in him as of his practical nature. He was not a geek, neither was he a charming face but he was a thinker, a commendable dreamer. As he visited this new
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“Close your eyes,” he said, “and lie down. Where would you like to go?” “Take me with you. I’ll listen. I’ll travel.” “We are sitting on the edge of a cliff. I shall ask you a question. Do not create an answer for me. If the answer lacks instinct, you will be thrown off the
It was five years ago that Raj heard her for the first time. She sounded like an angel to him, so sweet and musical. He didn’t even have the courage to turn to look in her direction and kept working. For the first time in his life, Raj felt his heartbeat in his ears and
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“Hey! Doctor?” I was ready to leave when I just heard the voice. I looked up at the man in the blue shirt who stood in front of me. A person had called me in the morning and I guessed it was him. “Mr. Joshi? Please take a seat.” He sat at the other end
To the girl who was confused, I saw you today at a crosswords store, searching for a good book. The look on your face while you were standing there, I wish I could have captured it. There was a cocktail of emotions on your face, excitement, mixed in with a bit of disappointment, maybe because
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Why does the drinker drink?Let’s give this thought a think.He’s up all night with a glass held tight,And does not sleep a wink. His eyes are red, his heart is leadNevertheless, he wondersAbout useless things such as love and lifeAnd his drinking blunders. Sometimes he lights a smoke to accompanyHis scotch, and gin and tonic;Still
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It’s been a while that I took a decision to not deciding to make a decision. I am a person of vehemence. I am full of energy, also I am very far from obscurity. I always took my decisions on a non-mortifying attitude as I love to be praised as everyone else. I don’t want